I need help rebuilding my rifle

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This is my rifle, it was a birthday gift from my son and I know its not the best in the world but i would like to build it into a descent rifle, I had the bolt worked on and put a different scope on it a 4-16-50. Any suggestions where i could buy some things to beef it up a little, guys be easy on me

Remington 710 30-06

 

[coldboremiracle]

Re: I need help rebuilding my rifle

The 710 is not a very good one to build on, I understand it was a gift from your son, But if I were you I'd leave that one as it is and build something else.

 

[Veer_G]

Re: I need help rebuilding my rifle

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: coldboremiracle</div><div class="ubbcode-body">The 710 is not a very good one to build on, I understand it was a gift from your son, But if I were you I'd leave that one as it is and build something else. </div></div>

CBM is right. The 710 is notoriously inaccurate. Better to treat that rifle as a wall hanger and enjoy it for what it is, a reminder of your son's love.

There's lots that you can do without spending three or four thousand dollars on a custom build. Look at the Howa 1500, a Savage 1XX, or even an unadorned Remington 700, for that matter. Understand that the degree of increase in accuracy is only marginally relative to the amount of money that you spend, and that more of the accuracy is a matter of your own skill set and experience.

 

[UNCIVILIZED]

Re: I need help rebuilding my rifle

You can always try the basics:
- Tune the trigger, or upgrade it if available
- Glass bed & free float
- Tune the loads, assuming you handload.
- Fire lap the barrel. Or if you're up for spending the $, have the barrel hand lapped, then bobbed & recrowned.
Aside from those, you're looking @ involving a smith, which means the outlay of a lot more coin. But the afore mentioned may work well. If you're set on making here a keeper, give it a try.

Ah, & check the stock's stiffness. If you can push it up till it touches the barrel, such ain't good. As even if she's bedded, the pressure on the action will change with varying bipod & sling loads, which'll cause flyers & other bad juju accuracy wise.
I'm not certain what that stock's made of, but most, short of extruded plastic, can be stiffened up. Or by a Boyds & go from there.

 

[rusty815]

Re: I need help rebuilding my rifle

Keep the rifle as it is, no need to change something that is so important to you, I have a mauser from my late grandfather that I keep as a wallhanger, take it down every now and then to clean but that's it, I wouldn't dare touch it since it means so much to my family.

It would be better to start fresh, I am going to recommend some very budget friendly stuff:

-get a stevens 200 rifle, its made by Savage and is essentially a no-frills Savage rifle, great for customizing- ~$300
-(optional)get a new stock for it: you can use the one that comes with the stevens but its flimsy and cheap, a B&C or Choate will do just fine if it is only used to punch paper and shoot targets- $200-300
-new barrel: if you check a place called the gunshack (http://www.gunshack.com/) they have group buys on several barrels for savage rifles, make sure you get a small shank and, depending on your rifle, a caliber that fits in either a small action or short action- ~$170
-(optional) new trigger: the one on the stevens sucks but you can use it if you dont want to spend too much, if you want a new trigger any one for savage rifles works on it, I love the rifle basix SAV-1, its the most affordable one and its great- ~$85
-base and rings: here you can get just about anything that fits a savage, just make sure its for savage centerfeed (roundback) rifles, I prefere EGW rails ($40) and burris rings (~$60), its what I use and works perfectly, for the base, I suggest getting a 20MOA base to allow you to hit further- $100
-Scope: here you can spend however you want according to your budget, I can't really recommend anything specifically for you, but a few choices under $500 dollars would be a falcon menace, vortex viper, vortex diamondback, millet, swfa fixed magnification scope, redfield, swift, etc.

Everything that I have listed would put you at under $1,500 and you would have a very accurate, decent rifle to start with. You can always upgrade the components to better parts down the road, upgrade the stock to a Mcmillan or Manners or a chassis such as the XLR, upgrade the scope to something better, time and true the bolt, etc. But for now, this would be a great start.

 

[High Binder]

Re: I need help rebuilding my rifle

Honestly, what you do with it I think should be based on what your son wanted you to use it for, i.e. if he gave it to you with the idea that you would use it to hunt with than it's already set up perfectly for that purpose and you should get another rifle for long range shooting. However, if his intention was that you would use it to shoot long range, than you should go balls to the wall, but a word of warning, by doing this the only part you'll end up keeping is the action/barrel and you might be able to work the stock enough but that's a guess. So keep in mind that modifying this gun will lead to it loosing a lot of it's 'character/soul' and to me that would be a real shame being that it's from your son.

 

[rusty815]

Re: I need help rebuilding my rifle

Also, there is no way to upgrade the 710 because no one makes aftermarket parts for it, and parts from the remington 700 don't fit. the Barrel is pressed into the receiver instead of threaded so you can't replace it, the recoil lug is integrated into the stock, which is why no aftermarket stock makers make one for the 710 (although you can get a remington 770 stock for the 710, but you can only get them from remington).

As said before, simply leave the gun as is and treasure it, its not as inaccurate as one of the above posters mentioned (just as accurate as any remington 700 sporter I've seen), so you can use it if you wish, but try not to burn out the barrel.